In this review article,we summarized the study of the weak light nonlinear properties associated with group velocity change in the ruby.The ruby could be reduced to a two-level system,in which population oscillations could lead to a subluminal result.With the modulated TEM00 beam introduced into the ruby,self-phase modulation together with Fraunhofer diffractions and nondegenerate two-wave coupling between different spatial frequency components of the beam occurs at the same time.Population oscillations,self-phase modulation together with Fraunhofer diffractions and nondegenerate two-wave coupling mechanism competes with each other,which brings a new phenomenon of self-superluminal group velocity propagation in the ruby.
A theoretical approach based on differential radiative transport is proposed to quantitatively analyze the self- absorption and reemission effects on the emission spectrum for right angle excitation-detection photoluminescence mea- surements, and the wavelength dependence of the reemission effect is taken into account. Simulations and experiments are performed using rhodamine 6G solutions in ethanol as model samples. It is shown that the self-absorption effect is the dominant effect on the detected spectrum by inducing pseudo red-shift and reducing total intensity; whereas the reemission effect partly compensates for signal decrease and also results in an apparent signal gain at the wavelengths without ab- sorption. Both effects decrease with the decrease in the sample concentration and the propagation distance of the emission light inside the sample. We therefore suggest that diluted solutions are required for accurate photoluminescence spectrum measurements and photoluminescence-based measurements.
We experimentally study the wavelength dependence of light propagation in a water suspension of lithium niobate microcrystalline particles.First,the ballistic transmission in the visible range of the suspension is measured.The nonlinear relationship is observed between the transport mean free path and the wavelength of the incident light.Secondly,we measure the coherent backscattering (CBS) of the sample at different wavelengths.The full width at half maximum of the CBS cone at 532 nm is about 1.24 times as large as that at 671 nm.The results indicate that the light with a long wavelength propagates further than the short wavelength light and the localization state of the short one is stronger.Finally,we investigate the light-controllable CBS experiments in the disordered materials of anisotropic scatterers,which show that the configuration of pump light with the longer wavelength and the probe light with the shorter wavelength performs better.
SHI FanZHANG XinZhengLI JunWANG PiDongXU YanYU XuanYiXU JingJun
Optical transmission at 532 nm from nonabsorbing disordered porous silicon dioxide has been studied experimentally. The transmission behaviors can be adjusted by filling the pores with liquids of different refractive indics, which are analyzed based on the theory of diffusion in a weak scattering regime. In our experiment, the transmission coefficient changes from a value less than 1% to one that is greater than 75%, that is, the opaque sample becomes transparent, which means that the transport mean free path of light within the material has been effectively adjusted. In addition, this method is a useful nondestructive method to derive the refractive index of an unknown bulk porous material.
